1. What was the crisis on the British empire?
2. How did African Americans contribute to the enlightenment?
3. How did the American Revolution weaken Slavery?
4. What was the role of African American in the War for Independence? How did their choices in this conflict affect how the war was fought?
5. Why did a substantial class of free African Americans emerge from the Revolutionary Era?
6. What forces worked for black freedom in the first years after the revolution?
7. What impact did the Missouri Compromise have on African Americans?
8. How were African Americans able to achieve emancipation in the North?
9. How was the U.S Constitution, as it was drafted in 1787, proslavery? How was it Anti-Slavery?
10. What led Gabriel Prosser to believe he and his followers could abolish slavery in Virginia through armed uprising?
11. How did the War of 1812 affect African Americans?